Dramatic images have captured the moment a World War II shell was detonated by the Royal Navy Bomb Squad.
The Navy bomb team were called to destroy the unexploded ordnance after it was found in an Isle of Wight garden on Friday morning.
The shell was removed from the garden in which it was found and placed in a nearby field where a controlled explosion was carried out.
An Isle of Wight resident discovered the shell in their garden off Main Road in the village of Wellow.
In reaction to the shell’s discovery, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary established a cordon while the unexploded ordnance, which was described by the Royal Navy as a ‘small World War Two incendiary’, was safely removed.
The shell is the latest in a spate of World War munitions to be discovered in unassuming locations across the UK.
Last August, over 400 homes were evacuated from the Newtownards area in County Down, Northern Ireland, after a suspected German air-dropped bomb from World War II was discovered.
Similarly, an unexploded bomb was found under a Plymouth house last February, with a painstaking removal process seeing the device towed out to sea before being detonated.
Dramatic images have captured the moment a World War II shell was detonated by the Royal Navy Bomb Squad
The Navy bomb team were called to destroy the unexploded ordnance after it was found in an Isle of Wight garden on Friday morning
To this day, experts estimate there to be thousands of unexploded German bombs left across the UK.
According to the Ministry of Defence, authorities are called to deal with roughly 60 bomb discoveries per year.
The Ministry of Defence has also previously stated that anywhere up to 10 per cent of all bombs dropped over the UK during World War II failed to explode.
These ordnances are mainly found in coastal areas given the concentrated German effort to bomb strategic port cities during the war, but they have been known to be located in inland areas also.
However, many of the devices found tend to be smaller in nature and fail to make national headlines.
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